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Sunday, Sep 11, 2005
Also, Bush supporters will now be kalled "fukheads".
New York Times ...
picks up the Gretna Blockade story.
Crazy Eyes
Lorrie Beth Slonsky was on NPR today, telling the tale of horror that is the Gretna Blockade. (This American Life, episode 296, After the Flood).
She's one of the paramedics who wrote a first hand report of the blockade. Cathy Golden of Boston also appears on the show, and confirms the account.
She spoke about the incident in which their encampment on the Ponchartrian Expressway (US-90) was broken up by a Gretna cop.
Just as dusk set in, a sheriff showed up, jumped out of his patrol vehicle, aimed his gun at our faces and screamed, “Get off the fucking freeway.” A helicopter arrived and used the wind from its blades to blow away our flimsy structures. As we retreated, the sheriff loaded up his truck with our food and water.
On air she described this cop as having a "crazy look" in his eyes as he brandished his firearm. Paramedics deal with dire situations in the normal course of their day. So when a paramedic describes a police thug as having a crazy look in his eyes to the point of being frightening, that's got to be one tweaked out pig.
Seems like the Reconstuction with the capital "R" needs to come back to at least one cracker town.
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